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John McDonnell speech at Stand up for Labour goes viral

Stand up for Labour had an event planned months before the Euro Referendum at the George IV in Chiswick. The idea behind the event was to replenish supporters after a long campaign either campaigning in the local (Mayoral) elections or on the EU referendum.

As it turned out, the event also co-incided with an upheaval within the Parliamentary Party as dozens of MPs resigned after the EU referendum and a vote of no confidence was given against the Labour Party leader.

There was a lot of uncertainty about what was going on at the time so it was no surprise that tickets were sold out for the night - not least because John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, was speaking.

John McDonnell's speech was recorded by Paul Merron and received thousands of hits.